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Christian Zagia Chosco as Chosco …. Youssef Tounzi Majid as Majid …. Dominic Colenso Paul as Paul. Glen Heggstad Self as Self. Bart Layton. More like this. Storyline Edit. Add content advisory. In , surfers Mike Cooke, Mace Stanley and their high school buddy are sailing down the west coast of Mexico looking for adventure. After a shipwreck leaves them washed up on a deserted beach with their precious cargo floating in every direction, they wind up in a Mexican prison.
Ever optimistic, it's not long before they hatch a plan to dig their way to freedom - even though the whole place is made of concrete. After torturous months of digging, and several disasters, they finally make When Englishman Shaun turns to Ecstasy as a relief from the stresses of his new life as a stockbroker in Phoenix, Arizona, he soon finds himself seduced by the money and glamour of dealing the drug on an industrial scale. As the cash rolls in, Shaun lives the high life of parties, girls and fast cars.
But when a local mafia boss takes offense, the door opens on a dark criminal underworld. Shaun goes back to being a stockbroker, but it proves to be too little too late when, one morning, there's a knock at the door, and his world turns upside down. Carpet salesman, Tom Crutchfield, fulfills a dream for adventure, world travel and reptiles by becoming one of America's biggest reptile smugglers with a worldwide operation.
As undercover agents prepare to arrest him for illegally trading the world's rarest and most endangered species he flees to Belize to avoid prosecution. But he's arrested by the Belize authorities and held in a prison notorious for brutality. Before long he has helped form a movement called the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, dedicated to taking acid and smuggling dope across the border from Mexico to make money. But his hippie dream crumbles when Eddie falls in love with a beautiful coke addict.
He soon needs to find a way of supporting her lifestyle. So he sets up a deal to smuggle cocaine from Peru-a decision that will land him in the notorious Lurigancho Prison. He's convinced his only chance of survival is to escape This incredible episode of hit series Locked Up Abroad tells the story of two pilots imprisoned during the Vietnam War, who ended up depending on each other for survival but who never met face-to-face during the war. One of them, Sen. John McCain, was a U.
Navy pilot who was forced to eject during a strike over Hanoi only to be caught after landing in a lake. The other, Ernest Brace, was a civilian pilot who ended up being the longest serving civilian prisoner of the Vietnam War.
Brace was marched for miles upon miles and imprisoned in a cage in the jungle. He makes several escape attempts but each time is recaptured and punished more severely But the FBI develops an informant on the inside of the gang. The sting heralds the beginning of the end for organized crime in Las Vegas.
Once captured the mafia puts a contract on Frank Cullotta's life and he decides to enter the Witness Protection Program When contractor Roy Hallums is kidnapped in Iraq his mind fast turns to his family. They have no idea he's there. Having taken a job providing support to the U. So when a masked gang storms his office, he knows his loved ones are about to discover the truth in the worst possible way. For the U. When hot-shot street racer Rick learns that his girlfriend is pregnant, he worries that he doesnt earn enough money to support a family.
When his friend Jimmy offers him the chance to earn some cash stealing radios from cars, Rick is nervous but tempted. He goes along with Jimmy, as a lookout but soon he is breaking into cars himself. Fuelled by the thrill of easy money he steals again and again, moving his crime spree online. But when one of his victims threatens to kill him unless he returns the money, Rick is desperate.
He resorts to organized car theft but is betrayed by his friend and ends up being busted. When schoolteacher Howard Marks agrees to help an old friend finish off a drug deal, he has no idea that it will be the start of a new career. Attracted by the easy money and the thrill of being a smuggler, he is soon running a huge transatlantic operation and believes he is unstoppable.
But when one of his loads is busted, Howard becomes a wanted man and goes on the run. Concealing his identity using a string of aliases he continues to smuggle for years, becoming one of the world's biggest traffickers of cannabis. He moves to a villa in Spain with his wife and two children. This special episode of the hit series Banged Up Abroad will tell the story behind the Oscar-winning movie Argo.
Retired CIA officer and master of disguise, Antonio Mendez portrayed in the movie by Ben Affleck will tell the story of how, at the height of the Iranian hostage crisis he came up with an audacious plan to rescue six diplomats who had escaped the U. Embassy in Tehran. Desperate for a cover story that would allow him to swoop into Iran and smuggle the diplomats out through the airport, Mendez hit upon a wild idea - pose as a Hollywood film crew.
It sounded crazy, but as the only viable plan Mendez has little choice but to carry out All Susan Haglof ever wanted was to be a mother. By her forties, she thought she'd lost her chance, but then after moving to Egypt, she gets the opportunity to adopt Marko, shortly after his birth. It was love at first sight, but as soon as she had him in her arms, it became clear something wasn't quite right with the adoption. Marko didn't come with any papers; there was no proof that Susan was his adoptive mother.
So she made the decision to get a birth certificate with her, and her husband's name on it. What started as a small lie soon spun out of control, and less than a year into motherhood Susan was facing the possibility of being thrown Scott Campbell can't wait to go traveling in China with his estranged father Lockie, and then he finds out his dad is secretly planning to smuggle 20 kilos of cannabis.
When they're arrested, dad Lockie is jailed but Scott is released with a bag containing some of the undiscovered cannabis. Incredibly, Scott risks all by continuing the smuggling mission to Tokyo in order to raise money to pay for his father's lawyer. Jobless Duane Wollum needs money to maintain his party life style and support his daughter.
The lure of easy cash leads him to smuggle cocaine from Nicaragua into the US. At the airport, a routine security check reveals he is concealing a package on his body. Suddenly people around him are diving for cover. Duane is surrounded and looking down the barrel of several rifles. Samuel Leibowitz comes from a strict, Hasidic orthodox Jewish community in London.
Forced into an arranged marriage which very quickly fails, Sam decides to start afresh in Antwerp, Belgium, and goes to work in the local Hasidic community as a greengrocer.
A new friend offers Sam a free holiday in Brazil and on his return, he is asked to take a package back for his friend. It turns out to be cocaine. Sam has never heard of it, but is intrigued when he learns how much profit there is in drug dealing. He decides to get involved and his traditional clothing and hairstyle make him almost invisible to customs officers who assume he is strictly religious Californian Tom Hanway takes the hippie trail to South America where cocaine is cheap and available.
He plans to take hits of LSD with him and trade it for a kilo of coke which hell bring back to the States. But while doing the deal in Chile, Tom is caught and sentenced to five years and a day in prison.
Tom decides that the only way he will survive is to escape with the help of a fellow prisoner, Chosco. But once they make it out of the jail Tom and Chosco are fugitives and are forced to flee the country on foota fatal journey through the desert which leaves Tom alone and on the run with the police drawing ever closer.
Tom Hart Dyke is travelling through Central America in search of wild orchids. Paul Winder is in search of adventure. Together they attempt to cross from Panama to Colombia via the notoriously dangerous Darien Gap but are captured and held hostage by a revolutionary guerrilla group.
After a makeshift operation where the maggots are removed with a razor blade they are forced marched deep into the jungle. Angry at the lack of progress In a desperate attempt to keep his life and family afloat, Paul Keany's agrees to smuggle six kilos of cocaine from Venezuela.
Little did he know that the price of telling the story would be more than a year in captivity. On their way to record conditions in a refugee camp, Nigel and Amanda are kidnapped by a criminal gang. While their families attempt to secure the money, Nigel and Amanda form a plan to escape after 5 months of captivity, eventually jerking themselves to freedom through a small bathroom window.
After hitting the ground running, a Somalian child screams, A Chicago woman, dumped by her lover, smuggles heroin from Thailand to fund a new life. When caught at Bangkok airport shes sentenced to life at a notorious Bangkok prison.
Unable to endure the prospect of a lifetime behind bars she attempts suicide but fails. While in recovery she finds salvation. Ordered to nurse a fellow inmate with a heroin addiction, Angela Carnegie has an epiphany. It allows her to face the future with a new resolve and win back the love of her life. In Jerry Amster is having the time of his life traveling around Amsterdam. But when funds run low, he and two American friends, agree to smuggle heroin from Kuala Lumpur to Amsterdam.
However, things don't go to plan. Jerry and his accomplices are busted when their plane stops in Moscow; they're sentenced to a lengthy spell in a Russian labor camp. After nearly four years in prison, when Jerry's at his lowest ebb, he finds himself in the midst of an unbelievable turn of events.
American mother Ruthie Lambert turns to drug trafficking to help make ends meet. She makes numerous successful trips smuggling cocaine out of Peru, until she is finally caught and locked up in a tough South American prison.
Here Ruthie tragically discovers she has incurable cancer, and flees the country in a desperate attempt to see her family before she dies. Student nurse Lucy Wright had a wonderful boyfriend and a promising career before she succumbed to a crack cocaine addiction. In a desperate attempt to clear her debts and get her life back on course, she agrees to smuggle two suitcases of cocaine out of Argentina.
She's caught red handed at a Buenos Aires airport and told she's facing 16 to 25 years in jail. She's granted bail but when the police come to take her into custody she goes on the run. Making a daring escape that involves hopping buses, hitchhiking and swimming an international border, she manages to make her way back home to England where she turns herself in.
British gay nurse Stephen Comiskey has had a difficult year. He's come out about his sexuality and left his wife and children. Needing to support his ex-wife and kids and get himself out of the red, he takes a well-paid nursing job in Saudi Arabia.
When he discovers that homosexuality is punishable by death, he decides to be celibate. However, his resolve weakens when he sees that there is a thriving gay scene there.
He embarks on a series of affairs and thinks he can get away with it until one night he is beaten up by the religious police and thrown into jail. Party loving magician Mark Greening doesn't have a care in the world but when a holiday romance results in a pregnancy, he's forced to leave his beach bum lifestyle in Bali and take responsibility for his actions in Tokyo. With little work to be found he decides to become an independent mule, running hash from Nepal to Japan.
But after a couple of easy runs his luck turns sour, leaving him with a five year sentence in one of the world's strictest prisons. Latif is almost an exact physical match for Uday, virtually his twin. He doesn't want the role, but Uday has him thrown in prison until Latif accepts he has no choice but to do as he is commanded. He severs all ties with family, friends and his previous identity, and is trained to walk, talk, and behave exactly like his new master. While the position has its perks, Latif has to witness Uday's evil behavior-rape, murder, torture-on a continual basis.
Although Latif Actor Erik Aude is on top of the world with a promising career in Hollywood until his friend persuades him to go to Pakistan to pick up some leather goods. When he's arrested at the airport Erik discovers he has unknowingly been used by his friend to smuggle opium. Facing torture and beatings Erik has to fight to save his life and clear his name. Looking for adventure, Thomas Hamill takes a job as a civilian truck driver for the U. When his convoy is attacked and he is taken hostage by insurgents, Thomas knows he could be killed at any moment.
Will he find a way to survive captivity and make it home alive? Dwight Worker tries to smuggle Peruvian cocaine to America, concealed under a phoney shoulder cast.
But when hes busted in Mexico City and sent to the notorious Black Palace prison, his life becomes a living hell. After fighting off a gang of rapists, a near fatal stabbing in the stomach and a stint in the psychiatric ward, he vows to get out or die trying.
Falling in love with a visitor gives him the opportunity hes been waiting for, and on his wedding day, he makes an audacious attempt to escape while dressed as a woman…. Erez Eltawil and Reini Weigel are among eight backpackers who are snatched by guerrillas during a trek in remote northern Colombia. As weeks turn to months with no sign of release, the hostages become increasingly desperate and the group splits into two - each faction adopting a different survival strategy: cooperation with the kidnappers versus outright resistance.
Both groups push their tactics to the limit: A defiant escape attempt is met with brutal retribution and the plan to cooperate leads to a controversial blurring of the distinction between victim and kidnapper. Jayne Blaydon thought she had landed a dream job when she accepted an offer to teach lap dancing in a Caribbean nightclub. But soon after arriving in Guyana, she and her husband David were forced at gunpoint to smuggle multiple kilos of liquid cocaine back to England.
They successfully get through two customs points before being arrested in Guadeloupe. Locked up in prison, David suffers physical attacks and is crippled before he and Jayne are finally released after almost two years. Henry Hill, the inspiration for classic movie Goodfellas, tells the true story of his rise and fall in the New York mob. After becoming a gangster in his teens, Henry had it all: money, cars, women and respect. But when he was busted dealing dope against the orders of his boss, he turned from an invincible wiseguy into a mafia snitch with a price on his head.
Going even further than the film, he reveals how another drugs bust whilst in the Witness Protection Programme almost cost him his life. As Henry says himself "20 years ago Martin Scorsese made a movie about my life Scottish chef Gordon Malloch arrives in Saudi Arabia to start a new life as a catering manager but quickly finds himself a profitable sideline as a bootlegger. His homemade hooch makes him the toast of the ex-pat party scene - and when some fellow Europeans offer him a role in a whiskey smuggling operation he jumps at it.
Demand for premium quality whiskey in the strictly teetotal Saudi Arabian kingdom brings Gordon to the attention of the ruling elite and Gordon is soon supplying a local prince and various members of his extended family. After a near fatal car crash in the desert Gordon decides to quit while he is ahead, and he plans one last British man David Scott couldn't have been happier when he met Cynthia, a pretty Filipino woman, on the internet.
After a holiday together in the Philippines he's delighted when she becomes pregnant but their joy turns to despair when Cynthia's estranged husband starts making trouble.
Under the Philippines' adultery laws he has them thrown in jail and the couple face up to 14 years in prison. Worse still, they discover under that their baby legally belongs to her ex-husband and it's up to him what he wants to do with her. With time and money running out they decide to go on the run and escape to Thailand. It's a risky plan. Cynthia is jumping When Jeremy Khinoo loses his girlfriend and daughter, he escapes into a world where the size of your muscles means everything and steroids are a way to get there.
With a group of guys from the gym, he goes to Mexico to buy illegal prescription drugs - and he pays for them with money he's made himself. The first two times, he gets away with it. But on his third trip, he gets caught spending his fake cash in a roadside store: a car chase ends with a police roadblock, and the drugs and counterfeit cash land him in jail.
He's soon addicted to heroin, and before he's released, gets stabbed by another drug addict. Jeremy doesn't just lose his liberty-he Brigene Young, a 20 year old barmaid from Johannesburg, is offered an all-expenses-paid trip to the paradise island of Mauritius. All she has to do is wear a special pair of high heels on the trip over there. But when she gets busted at customs with a kilo of heroin, she faces a possible year jail sentence - unless she agrees to take part in a dangerous sting operation to catch the drug traffickers.
Chris Chance and his wife Susan have their dream life in Spain running their own martial arts school-until their landlord doubles their rent.
Desperate to stay afloat, Chris makes a decision that will change his life. Sunday, USA. Anticipating because each week, this series somehow raises the dramatic stakes for its characters, in a grueling but rewarding tour of duty through the socio-ethnic sprawl of Los Angeles. Dreading because Southland has almost always lived on the verge of ratings extinction, from the time TNT rescued the show after NBC dumped it before its second season could even premiere, and I fear as do many that this fifth season could very likely be its last hurrah.
Several of its stars have signed up for new work during this pilot season, perhaps seeing the writing on the wall. But Lauren's near-wardrobe malfunction and Alex's same-sex couch-dancing with Twitch really raised the bar for the performance shows, so it will be interesting to see if the Top 8 can clear it tonight.
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